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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@ort...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] @{cd ...} breaks completion with ctrl-f/ins; help needed
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:24:05 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

> This is true, but I am afraid it doesn't have much connection to the problem.
> Even if you 'rfork n' (and have a copy of the namespace) the file
> /dev/wdir is simply the same file in both namespaces...

Yes, I realized after I hit send that I wasn't very clear about what I was 
trying to say. I wasn't trying to address the wdir issue, but your 
allusion to the namespace behaviour not making sense. Knowing how 
and why namespaces work as they do is critical to understanding and using 
Plan 9. It's important that you read and understand the names.ps paper and 
then spend time experimenting with namespaces. For most people it's the 
hardest part of the system to wrap your brain around, but once you get it 
your universe gets a lot bigger very quickly.

--lyndon